SOEs foot the bill for ANC activities, Montana tells Zondo commission
Updated | By Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile
Former Transnet CEO Lucky Montana has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that state-owned entities have in the past paid for activities and celebrations of the African National Congress (ANC).
Montana was back at the commission on Monday.
He told the commission that President Cyril Ramaphosa was not honest during his testimony.
He believes Ramaphosa’s testimony was proof that the governing party has no plans to account to the commission.
"If the ANC leadership wants to assist this commission, they shouldn't try and put blame on other people on people. They must come and tell the commission that there was a certain way in which we did things, and these things happened before the law on funding for political parties. The way we funded our conference and priori to conference tables were being sold.
"SEOs of companies where either buying these tables or would get suppliers to their business to buy these tables," said Montana.
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He said ANC leaders demanded Prasa funds be used for an ANC celebration.
"I heard (former board chair) Popo Molefe and the president say they don't want public funds used for party political activities. Chair, it is not true. I listened and walked up and down in my room. When the ANC organises its January 8th statement events, the leadership of the ANC said to (former transport minister) Minister Dipuo Peters, we don't have a transport plan, we want Lucky and Prasa to help us organize this. She wasn't told this by someone in a corner, she was told by the leadership during its planning process," said Montana.
He added that it was false for anyone to suggest that corruption and state capture belong only to the administration of former president Jacob Zuma.
"I will probably die a member of the ANC, but chair, this thing of trying to talk about state capture as if it belongs to Zuma is false. For the ANC it’sa way of life. And I think we lost an opportunity when the president was here at the commission, the ANC should have said there are certain things we used to do as an organisation," said Montana.
He encouraged the commission’s chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, to approach current and former CEOs of state-owned entities to find out how they have been pressured by the ANC leadership to use public funds for party's activities.
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